WOOD, RON
- CD
GIMME SOME NECK AND MORE
LABEL: |
WLR Wild Lads 78 |
SOURCE: |
Disc One: Pathé Marconi Studios, Boulogne-Billancourt (near Paris), France, March and/or April 1978 and Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, September-November (on booklet October) 1978; Disc Two, Tracks 1-5,7,8: 14 Nov.2011, Track 6: Ambassador Theatre, London 9 March 2011 2nd show, Track 9: Morgan Sound St., London Sep.-Dec.70, Tracks 10-12: Olympic Sound St. London May-Nov.72 & Olympic Sound St. London spring 76, Track 13: Cherokee St. Los Angeles 23-24 Sept.80, Track 14: Record Plant, New York 5 July 84, Track 15: Sandymount, Kildare Aug.Dec.91, Tracks 16,18: CC Club, London 12 Dec.2011, Tracks 17,19-21: Shepherd’s Bush, London 11 Dec.2011. Disc Three Tracks 1-9,11,12: Palladium, London 6 May 2019 (Track 2 bc BBC 13 Nov.2019, Track 5 bc BBC 14 Nov.2019, Track 7 bc BBC 17 Nov.2019), Track 10: Under The Bridge, London 16 Nov.2019, Track 13: Theatre Royal, London 13 March 2005. Disc Four, Tracks 1-10: Electric Lady St. New York, 2 Nov. 1992, Tracks 11,13,16: Rhythm Cafè, San Diego 16 Nov. 1992, Tracks 12,15: The Ritz, New York, 31 Oct.1992. |
FORMAT: |
4 picture cds |
RUNNING TIME: |
53.58/79.23/51.37/75.26 |
SOUND/SOURCE: |
Soundboard Stereo except for Disc Two, Tracks 16,17 and Disc Three, Tracks 8,9: Soundboard mono and Disc Three, Tracks 9-13 and Disc Four, Tracks 12,15: Audience stereo. |
PACKAGING: |
Long Digibox with 8 pages booklet. Lim. Edition of 300 numbered copies. |
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SOUND 9 / PACKAGING 9
/ PERFORMANCE 10
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TRACK LIST: |
Disc
One: 1. Breakin’ My Heart #2, 2. Lost And Lonely, 3. Worry No More, 4. We All
Get Old, 5. Seven Days, 6. I Got Lost When I Found You, 7. F.U.C. Her, 8. Don t
Worry, 9. Infekshun (on booklet Infection), 10. Tiger Balm, 11. Buried Alive, 12.
Come To Realize, 13. Breakin My Heart #1.
Disc
Two: 1. This Is The Beginning, 2. Playin’ On My Mind, 3. I Don’t Think So, 4.
Why You Wanna Go And Do A Thing Like That For, 5. Fancy Pants, 6. Worried Life
Blues, 7. Thanks For Your Support, 8. Bonus Chat, Bonus Tracks: 9. Richmond,
10. Woody’s Thing, 11. Tonight’s Numbers, 12. Title One, 13. Dead Giveaway, 14.
It’s Not Easy, 15. Must Be Love, 16. It’s Only Rock’n Roll, 17. Jealous Guy,
18. Crotch Music, 19. Hey Negrita, 20. Rock’n Roll Star, 21. Ooh La La.
Disc
Three: 1. Wee Wee Hours, 2. Bullfrog Boogie, 3. Tribute To Chuck Berry, 4. Wee
Wee Hours, 5. Back In The USA, 6. Rock & Roll Music #1, 7. Johnny B.Goode #1,
8. Johnny B.Goode #2, 9. Mad Lad, 10. Rock & Roll Music #2, 11. Don’t Lie
To Me, 12. Betty Jean, Bonus Track 13. Dance Pt.1.
Disc
Four: 1. Show Me, 2. Flying, 3. Testify, 4. Pretty Beat Up, 5. Always Wanted More,
6. Breathe On Me, 7. Silicon Grown, 8. Black Limousine, 9. Little Red Rooster,
10. Stay With Me, 11. Josephine, 12. Somebody Else Might, 13. I’m Losing You,
14. Really Got The Best Of Me, 15. I Can Feel The Fire, 16. It’s Only Rock’n
Roll.
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REVIEW: |
Disc
One is Foxes in the Box vol.4, Disc Two is a copy of I Want You To Hear This, Disc
Three audio from Mad Lad tv appearances and Disc Four copy of radio show Live
at Electric Ladyland from the 1992 Slide on Live Tour.
Disc
One presents tracks recorded by Ron Wood for his Gimme Some Neck album, which
at first came out online as Foxes In The Boxes Vol.4 (JEMS). The disc starts
with the second version of Breakin’ My Heart that features more guitars and
finished vocals, followed by Lost And Lonely which is longer than the
officially released version and, thanks God, with less stereo effects; conversely
Worry No More is shorter and has less overdubbed guitar parts. We All Get Old
is longer too presenting an early mix, Seven Days does not have Keith Richards
backing vocals, I Got Lost When I Found You does not seem to be that different
from the released take. F.U.C. Her is an early mix, like Don’t Worry which
lacks Bobby Keys overdubbed sax part. On Infekshun can be heard Jagger’s
backing vocals as well as different guitars riffs. Tiger Balm is heard here for
the very first time, a completely unknow outtake that shows a song that could
easily have made it to the released album and features a nice organ from Ian
McLagan. Buried Alive is a longer early take lacking Richards overdubbed
guitars, same for Come To Realize that has no backing vocals. This disc ends
with the first take of Breakin’ My Heart which is, obviously, an early version featuring
a prominent organ. For my taste these songs are marred by the bad production of
Roy Thomas Baker (like the finished album) with bad sounding drums that sound
similar to hitting a cardboard box. Anyway, since they are out for the first
time on silver, apart from the usual Japan no label releases like Gimme Some
Neck Rough Mixes or Gimme Some Neck Early Mixes (Moonchild Rec.020), I suppose
they are interesting for collectors.
Disc
Two presents a copy of I Want You To Hear This, a cd that was officially
released in 2011 in a box containing also the reproduction of Ron Wood art
prints; three tracks, called The Early Sessions, were originally released in
lossy format only in Australia/Japan through i-tunes but then there is a song
out for the first time (Plating With My Mind) with Kelly Jones from
Stereophonics and a live version of Worried Life Blues recorded with Ben Waters
for the Boogie For Stu album that features Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and Mick Taylor.
Next come some bonus tracks, the first (Richmond) from the Faces Longplayer
album that lacks the bass, then 3 songs from Mahoney’s Last Stand, a soundtrack
Ron Wood wrote with Ronnie Lane in 1972, but ended in the spring of 1976 that
feature the help of
Bobby Keys as well
as Stu and P.Townshend/K.Jones respectively for the first 2 tracks. Dead
Giveaway is a song from Ringo Starr Stop And Smell The Roses album. The next
song was released on the Wild Life soundtrack album and is credited to Charlie
Sexton featuring Keith Richards in a remake of a Stones 60s tune, originally on
Aftermath. Must Be Love was recorded in Ireland in 1991 for Slide on This,
which Wood co-produced with B. Fowler. This disc ends with a bunch of tracks from
11 and 12 December 2001 played live in London. The last two Shepherd’s Bush
tracks were released on Far East Man a live DVD in 2002, only on Jealous Guy
(audience sourced), however, there is Slash, while he is there for the CC Club
songs, that are all audience sourced. Disc Three has 2019 Wood solo activities
including tracks performed at the BBC in shows hosted by Jo Whiley and Jools
Holland plus as extra a live version of Dance featuring Mick Jagger from a 2005
concert which was professionally filmed, bur here in audience quality. Disc
Four presents the first 10 tracks that come from a radio show whose content was
broadcasted live by WNEW FM and then officially released in 2000 on the Album Live
and Electric plus 5 more tracks taken from The Rhythm Café, San Diego (soundboard)
and The Ritz, New York 1992 (audience) concerts; the funny thing being that the
Ritz tracks were released in audience quality on the Live and Electric album which
makes it hard to believe it was a legitimate release. There is nothing
shockingly rare on this release, however the inclusion of Gimme Some Neck rough
rough tapes is interesting and deserves a mention.
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